The Shelley L. Woods Excellence in Person-Centered Care Award recognizes a Health PEI employee working in long-term care who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to person-centred care philosophy.
This brochure provides information about postpartum mood disorders, what you can do and how to get help.
This booklet will help parents, families, caregivers, and childcare providers prepare, feed and store formula safely. It also includes information about the risks and costs of formula feeding to help families make an informed decision. The information is meant f
A new sexual health walk-in clinic will offer Islanders another way to access sexual health services, including testing. Starting tomorrow (July 10), Health PEI will run a free monthly sexual health walk-in clinic that will offer services including sexually transmitted and blood...
Islanders living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can help shape future COPD programming and services. Health PEI will hold four focus-group conversations across the province from 1 to 3 p.m. on: • Thursday, July 12 (Queens County); • Friday, July 13 (East Prince...
Private nursing homes across Prince Edward Island will get up to 100 new beds over the next year that will further improve Islanders’ access to long-term care. The provincial government is requesting proposals until July 25 (available at www.princeedwardisland.ca/tenders) for the...
Information sheet about type 1 diabetes from Diabetes Canada.
Vision loss is very personal to David Hilchey. His daughter lives with a syndrome that will - within this decade - limit her vision to what would be seen looking through a straw. After almost 10 years of volunteering for the national organization that supports Canadians living...
Islanders will soon have help to pay for more of the prescription medications they need for a better quality of life. The provincial government is improving the drug formulary by adding and expanding coverage for 28 new drugs beginning August 1. The new drugs will treat more than...
Tyler Caissie is living proof that Prince Edward Island is nearing a landmark moment in its health care history. Caissie is one of more than 100 Islanders who no longer have the life-threatening liver disease hepatitis C. It happened after Prince Edward Island in 2015 became...